I’m purposefully avoiding supporting specific thermostats and aiming to control the climate entities that they present, that way it stays generic and should work for the widest group of people. The only thing I could suggest is to manually add 0.5 or 1.0 degrees to whatever you’d like your temperature to be set to.
There are ways to create helper thermostats that can translate between a generic thermostat and whatever your needs are, I’ll be looking at how to integrate Better Thermostat in the v1.16 “Automations” release, it looks like it should be able to do a lot of things that folks are asking for but has some quirks I need to figure out first.
I will check if ZHA has somewhat the same functionality to verify the actually transmitted value… If not, I will try to integrate it via Z2M and verify it this way! Thanks for the suggestions! I haven’t used Z2M before, so I didn’t know its capabilities…
This is also a good option, but I don’t have the whole Sonoff ecosystem with a compatible bridge and a compatible external sensor that I can put in the fridge to drop the temperature and test
If the method that @ra-bigfeet proposed doesn’t work, this will be my permanent setup for sure!
I have tried with Better Thermostat as well, but the whole setup got a bit unstable. “Who is the master, who can overwrite, who is following who?”, and finally I ended up with the thermostats sometimes out of sync. However, I will follow your implementation and give it another go!
Hi, newer to Home Assistant, not afraid to dive deep but I’m trying to use your scheduler, looks to be exactly what I want so thank you very much for all this work, but would like to see temperature sensors in that area along with the thermostats. I have a Z-Wave thermostats but those only show up on the graph none of the temperature sensors graph along with the temperature reported by the thermostat. What do I need to do to get the temperature sensors (have three switchbot BLE [SwitchBot Indoor/Outdoor Thermo-Hygrometer | IP65 Waterproof | SwitchBot US] thermo-hygrometers) graphing too? Seems like some of the example screenshots it should just pick it up automatically. Thanks in advance!
When you see multiple data graphs its from having multiple climate entities (thermostats) in the same schedule, there’s no way to add just a temperature sensor right now. I’ve added it to the backlog.
Hi,
first of all, thanks for that wonderful integration!
I am new to HA and was looking for a simple time schedule for my climate controls.
I am using Homematic IP TRV’s with Sonoff Temp sensors, both combined via Better Thermostat.
With Climate Scheduler on top it was possible to assign individual temp profiles for each room (aka group) and via profile switch, it was possible to realise vacancy and party modes.
This works excellent in 3 of 4 rooms.
In the last room I had experimented with a different TRV (TPlink) and then tried to switch back to Homematic IP TRV.
Doing that I tried to delete a group to redefine, but that didnt work.
I was only able to rename and disable the group.
Then I made new group, assigned a Better Thermostat entity, but that did not work. I tried to delete it, but no luck.
Even in 1 group, it tells ‘1 entity’, but no one is listed.
Obviously, I had produced some data garbage.
I had tried the buttons in the bottom of the settings section ('Cleanup Orphaned Entities etc.), they didn’t do anything.
Is it possible to edit some yaml files to cleanup my installation, or what can I do?
Can you create a group with a new unique name? It could be an easy win? Otherwise if you arent fussed about losing data you could use the factory reset option in the settings panel.
The data for this is stored in the standard .storage folder if you wanted to try cleaning it up.
Hi Keegan,
thank you for your advice.
This morning, after a fresh reboot of HA and browser refresh, I was able to add a new group (unique names seem to be crucial - now I have prefixed my names: ‘csg_’ for Climate Scheduler groups, ‘bt_’ for Better Thermostat climate entities and so on).
And even better: I was able to delete the deactivated groups and now I could get rid of 8 orphaned entities.
Thanks again.
Now all is working as expected - great job!
The next topic I am working on is how to implement a boost function, especially for the bath room. It is only warm in the morning, but when my wife likes to take a shower in the evening, so a boost function would be nice.
Now I am curious about the further development
RüGi
You could create a second profile for the bathroom that is just set to a high value for the entire period, if you switch to that profile for a fixed time then that’d do the job. There are actions that you can use to automate this.
Also, you’ve just made me realise how I can implement this in the integration properly so thanks for that!
Hi, I’m struggling to get the card visible on a dashboard. Integration successfully added to my Virtualbox HA & activated via settings/integrations, I can see it in integrations so confident it’s installed, Your instructions then say “go to any Dashboard & click on the 3 dots”. This part doesn’t work for me, I have no useful dots ! However a couple of new Climate Sensors appeared on a new dashboard so I’m probably nearly there. I have cleared cache & rebooted the VM to no avail. Any ideas ?
v1.15.0-develop.10 is available, barring show-stoppers it’ll be the last pre-release before I publish it.
I has a whole host of updates to the UI since the 1.14 release, the graph system has been replaced with a new timeline mechanism which works on mobile. It’s not perfect but there will be a 1.15.1 and other releases to add further improvements.
If folks could jump on this one so I can squash any major bugs I’d appreciate it!
